Unfortunately, I imagine that everyone will think they have to go it alone, and see what shakes out as the mindshare winner, just like last time.

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University



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From: Vinícius Ferrão <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 9:47 AM
To: James M. Pulver
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Rocky Linux

Very nice indeed.

I think there will be a lot of releases (or perhaps rereleases) right now with this move from Red Hat.

TBH I just joined the list yesterday because I used to manage SL4 and SL5 systems a decade ago and I’m with some hope that SL8 will be eventually released.

One thing to note is the point regarding duplicating efforts that I agree. Perhaps with this move from Red Hat people should join forces and not create multiple RHEL clones just like we have in the past.

Best regards,
Vinícius Ferrão

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> On 10 Dec 2020, at 11:40, James M. Pulver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I wonder about this announcement:
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog.cloudlinux.com_announcing-2Dopen-2Dsourced-2Dcommunity-2Ddriven-2Drhel-2Dfork-2Dby-2Dcloudlinux&d=DwIFAw&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=2V_QpPNAI8YktNoQVDht_Jp5kz4L0gnsVs1ukLIG3Hk&s=jFlb6NwQ7wlEzV6PEkEBto6YTa25O5xET6L5fIqLVGw&e=
>
> I mean, they already have infrastructure and seem to have been doing it for a while. A la Oracle without the horrible history (to me anyway) of Oracle as a company. I am interested to see how this shakes out, but Rocky linux is basically at "we need hardware and to build teams" and Cloud Linux seems to be "we need to open up some repos to the world".
>
> --
> James Pulver
> CLASSE Computer Group
> Cornell University
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> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ching Him Leung <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 9:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Rocky Linux
>
> While I would like to see to Rocky Linux success and would have no problem use it for my personal projects, I don't know if I would be comfortable using it in my experiment. I would like to see what Fermilab and CERN would suggest.